Computer problems in Pueblo County could delay — maybe by hours — how quickly the Democratic stronghold is able to report results on Election Day.

Gilbert “Bo” Ortiz, the county’s clerk and recorder, said election officials have been unable to count ballots for more than five hours on Tuesday. He said the problem was with a database that contained ballot results.

That database filled up because of software trouble, he said, so election officials had to get another server from the Colorado Secretary of State in Denver. The glitch, coupled with the time to install the server, has delayed ballot counting.

“This threw us a curveball, as happens with elections,” said Ortiz, who added the county should be able to process ballots quickly once the new server is ready. “Hopefully, we should be able to catch up by 11 p.m. tonight.”

As of Nov. 1, there were 41,800 active Democratic voters in Pueblo County compared to 25,225 Republicans and 29,474 unaffiliated voters.

This is far from the only problem that Colorado officials have faced on Election Day. At about 3 p.m., a system used to verify voters briefly went down, prompting Democrats to ask the courts to extend voting hours. Pueblo’s problems were unrelated to that.

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